I hope you're practising because some very sick exercises for the right hand are coming soon!These riffs will get your hands on fire!

This lesson is a tune in the style of the death/progressive metal band called "The faceless". The riff in this lesson is divided into 3 main parts.

Part AThis is the main riff, composed on the E minor and G diminished scales. You'll need to use yourmemory to remember the phrasings and a lot ot left-hand opening for a correct fingering. It will let you increase your scale visualization level. Regarding the tempo, it's just the goodold 4/4.

Part BA long bridge which is in time signature (4/4, 5/4, 4/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4). This part is purelyrhythmical. If you're playing with other musicians, it's basic to maintain a tight coordinationwith them in this part.

Part CThis could work as a chorus. It has a dark feeling and the tempo is 6/4.

Practise this at a really slow speed, especially Part B. You must keep concentrated and avoidlosing your way, that's why i recommend to play it so slow at first. As it always happens, thesecret is to get used to the movements very gradually while you increasingly learn how to feel the tempo, which is very important in this style as it highlights the whole thing all the way.If you interrupt the flow of your playing everything collapses. So work hard and and you'llnail it, folks!

This riff is great for those interested in progressive-death sounds, where a riff from the firstround goes down to earth and then soars to the sky. Without changing the tempo, you can turneverything upside down by just elliminating or adding notes.

In this lesson we're also combining rhythmical elements which are very useful to practise right-hand control in time signatures with dark harmonies generated, in this case, by the flat 9 and the G diminishedscales.

Please DO ask me anything you need to know about this and any other of my lessons!

I hope you rock to death with this and the rest of my lessons and that my explanations are useful ,

Enjoy it!

C-ya next time!

Tuning :

guitar tuned one step down

from 6th string to 1st these are the notes:

D G C F A D

It´s a lower tuning, for heavier sounds, special for this kind of music with heavy riffs.